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I went to the gym this morning at 7 am and did 45 minutes on the bike at level 10 random. I was going to do 30 minutes on the bike and 15 on the elliptical but the person who booked it before me was not off of it on time and I did not want to just stand around wasting precious exercise time!! I then did 25 minutes of free weights, full body. This is awesome though, because now I can go straight home after work and spend some time with Trevor before we are off to my in-laws for the weekend. Trevor will be staying mostly at the hunting camp until dark and then coming home to see me and going back out the same night; it is about a 15 minute drive. He has to go back out in the evening because they get up at some god awful time like 4 am to get out in the bush before the deer!
I have just started reading another journal. Her name is Paige. She has a very interesting and inspirational story and she has almost the exact same stats as me! You should pop over and take a peek. I have added her to my links page.
To my friend Ang and her husband JP my thoughts and prayers are with you…... Her mother in law passed away yesterday after a long heroic battle with cancer. Hang in there Ang!
I have a plan for eating well this weekend. I will bring all of my food with me and my weights. I hope to do my new Sunday work out at my in-laws. The plan this weekend is to relax, paint my nails a pretty color, and to read my new Danielle Steel book. I think I will also be helping my mother in law clean my husband's grandfather's new house. He is moving in this weekend, so we are going to wipe out the cupboards and give the new house a good cleaning. I think this counts as exercise!
Food wise I have been sticking to my points. I am the type of person that once I find something I like to eat, I eat it all of them time. I don't like to eat the same things everyday though. I am not sure if it matters but I don't think it is healthy and the whole point of this journey is to live a healthy life style. So I try and change things up as much as I can. Due to the fact though that Trevor and I do not eat the same things, once I buy the ingredients to make something I have to eat it for a few days because I am only one eating it. Usually during the week I eat pretty much the same things for breakfast, snacks and lunch everyday but I try and have different things for supper. On the weekends I try and change it all up completely. Currently I am addicted to whole wheat pasta! I got to wondering though if the calories on the box are for the past cooked or not? I have been weighing it uncooked…. Does any one know? I weigh everything! This week I am having one of those weeks were I weigh something and then for no apparent reason add a little more to it….. WTF? Why do I do that? Why must I have that one extra piece of pasta, that extra shake of parmesan cheese, the extra few drops of salad dressing?
Also, I am trying to keep my bights, licks and tastes (BLTs) in check. Gosh when will I ever shake this habit? I must keep reminding myself constantly!
Anyways I have to get ready to leave for my in-laws. I should have time well I am there to come on here and update, now that my mother in law is connected to the World Wide Web!
Have a fabulous night!
Wendy
I have been having a good few days for working out and eating. Wednesday night I did 30 minutes on the bike at level 10 random, 25 minutes of free weights and then I did a 42-minute kickboxing class. Once again it was an awesome work out!! Then tonight I did 35 minutes on the bike at level 10 random and 30 minutes on the elliptical at level 11 cross train. The last few days I have been bang on my 20 points. Tomorrow morning I plan on going to the gym before work. I have a few free hours from 7 -9 tomorrow, so I hope to get my work out done early. I could also sleep in… nope I think I will go ahead and do 45 minutes of cardio and 25 minutes of weights in the morning so that I can go get some food to take with me to my in-laws. This seems to work best for me. I need to bring my own food, so that I am not tempted to eat something I shouldn't. I can't count on there being all food that I can eat to be served. I know, with weight watchers I can eat anything… but it is more a matter of is it worth the points or not? Sure I could have 2 slices of pizza, but I could have a lot more, healthier food for the same points.
I was reading Philipa's journal today and she put up pictures of her before and after. You should go there and see. The change is amazing! But she mentioned how it feels to lose a lot of weight and how she feels now. This made me think of how much better I feel! I know it should be obvious but you kind of don't realize just how good eating and working out makes you feel. I feel good! When I was overweight I used to be sick all of the time! I could never figure out why I felt so sluggish and had bad stomach aches all of the time. At the time it did not seem obvious, but now it is painfully obvious when I binge, why I felt so sick all of the time!! Duh! Also, I don't know how to explain it but to say that I feel comfortable in my own skin now. Someone who has never been over weight could never understand this. I find myself looking at people who are fit and wondering how they feel in their skin? It is hard for me to explain but it is like I was busting out all over the place. Almost swollen. Well slowly but surely I am feeling less "swollen" and am getting more comfortable. I wonder if I will ever get the feeling that a skinny person has when they put clothing on, when they run down the street, when they walk into a room, when they look in a mirror…….and the list goes on. I am definitely feeling a lot different than I did when I was 217lbs. I think it will be a slow change and then all of a sudden I realize that I am there! That is already happening. I realized about am month ago that I had lost over 40 pounds and I was still wearing the same underwear and pajamas!!! They were hanging off of me and I did not notice! I really did not notice…. All of a sudden I started to notice bones that were not there before! So I bought some new underwear and bras (a the joys of losing weight… I really hope that part of me does not shrink anymore!) and I am a "normal" size medium in underwear! So now I can choose from all of those fancy little numbers!!! By the time I am done losing weight I might squeeze my big but into a small!!! I still think I have a big but! A completely new topic for another day!
Anyways I am babbling sitting here typing in my sweaty work out clothes! I better go have a shower and make some supper! The weekend is almost here!!!
Good night!
Wendy
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